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# 1  
Old 10-12-2019
Backup and Recovery

Is it possible to take incremental backup in Linux using tar command?
Please guide me.

Suppose I have a directory /data.
And want incremental backup.
What will be the incremental "tar" command syntax?

Last edited by hicksd8; 10-12-2019 at 03:40 PM..
# 2  
Old 10-12-2019
Are you going to script this operation?

There are many many ways to do it. No doubt you will get other suggestions.

One way is to create a timestamp file when the full backup is run by adding:

Code:
date>/tmp/timestamp

to the beginning of your full backup script.

(Note: Although the content of timestamp will contain date/time information it is only the inode content that matters here.)

Then, when you want to take an incremental backup you find all files newer (modified after) than that timestamp and backup that list with the "-T" switch:

Code:
find /data -newer /tmp/timestamp  | tar -cvf <incremental archive name> -T -

Check using:

Code:
man tar

that your tar implementation supports -T switch.

Last edited by hicksd8; 10-12-2019 at 06:36 PM..
# 3  
Old 10-12-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by engineer2002
Is it possible to take incremental backup in Linux using tar command?
Please guide me.

Suppose I have a directory /data.
And want incremental backup.
What will be the incremental "tar" command syntax?
Linux already has many good backup systems which uses some variations of tar (or rsync and tar) and is executed from cron.

Why not use that one of those and not reinvent the wheel?
# 4  
Old 10-13-2019
Would you like to share your WhatsApp number, if you don't mind. For better understanding.
Dear neo, I am newbie of Linux, kindly guide me from scratch, if possible.

From full backup to cron job.


Regards,
Rashid Hussain.
Thanks for your precious reply.

Last edited by hicksd8; 10-13-2019 at 12:11 PM..
# 5  
Old 10-13-2019
It really doesn't matter that you are a "newbie". Forum rules state that technical discussions are kept on the forum and not off-line. Feel free to ask whatever you like, it will help future readers with the same problem.

The point about your question is this. If you want to do any incremental backup then you must have put down a timestamp on a full backup to know what your increment is. Yes, you can use a backup package to do that which will store such a timestamp under the radar automatically, or you can do it yourself (as I described in my post above) where you can see that timestamp.

Please place your further questions on this thread.
# 6  
Old 10-14-2019
Could you please guide me where I can find this procedure from the scratch.

I will be very thankful, I have to do because of as assignment. Kindly, please help me.
I have read somewhere it is the combination of two 02 commands
Tar and mtime.

I am getting confus.

Regards.
Rashid Hussain.
# 7  
Old 10-15-2019
Quote:
Originally Posted by engineer2002
Could you please guide me where I can find this procedure from the scratch.

I will be very thankful, I have to do because of as assignment. \.
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When any user must do something in a illogical way, for example not using normal Linux backup processes to do a basic backup, it is homework.

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